By Desiree Salas (media@latinospost.com) | First Posted: Mar 03, 2015 09:33 PM EST

Finally, the ultimate Wu-Tang Clan album has been unveiled, and only a select few was fortunate enough to have heard the 31-track record.

Further, only one copy of the long-awaited studio effort has been made and whoever gets to buy it "won't be able to legally share it with anyone for 88 years because of a binding copyright." Mashable said.

With this unconventional approach, the Wu has the distinction of being the first artists to have ever done so. But will this strategy fly?

Apparently, considering that a "small group of prospective buyers" were present at the first and only listening session for "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" Monday night, as noted by MailOnline, it looks like the group's plan may indeed work.

Some of those present were "advisers" for the album's potential buyers, with one advisor for a Chinese collector telling the publication that "collectors are clamouring to get their hands on the record and its silver box - whether they like Wu-Tang or not."

"Someone said it would be worth $1 million. That's nothing. This is something completely different; completely new. I don't think I could put a price on it," the advisor said. "The concept has not been seen before - and from the biggest rap collective in history... It is huge."

As previously reported, the record will be contained in a nickel silver box that is hand carved and encased in "a cedar wood treasure chest covered with black cow leather and light beige velvet lining."

"Inside is a cinematic-style record, plus a leather-bound 174-page manuscript printed on gilded Fedrigoni Marina parchment with lyrics, credits, tales about the recording." MailOnline added.

During the listening session, the said cedar box is empty, as the Wu's eight, and allegedly final, record is locked up in a vault in Marrakech, Morocco. Only a 13-minute excerpt will be played to the roughly 200 people present at the event. The actual record will be sold online by Paddle8 in an auction. RZA, the Wu-Tang Clan's default leader, said that they have already received "offers up to $5 million," according Rolling Stone.

RZA and the album's producer, Cilvaringz, had explained the unconventional decision to allow the record's owner to share "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" only after 88 years.

"We initially wanted the buyer to do whatever they wanted with it. But when we realized how much commercial interest there was, we began to understand that allowing it to play out in that way would undermine its trajectory as an artwork, even if no amount of replication could touch the original," Cilvaringz said in a statement, as quoted by Mashable.

"Anyone who knows the Wu-Tang Clan knows we often apply numerology, mathematics and symbolism to the things we do," RZA pointed out. "There were 8 original members of the Clan when we made Protect Ya Neck and M.E.T.H.O.D Man. The individual numbers of this year also add up to the number 8. The broker of this work carries the number 8 in its name. The number 8 on its side is a symbol of infinity."

"You can call it mathematical coincidence, but it's always had great symbolic significance for us," he went on to state. "For us it also addresses the issue of music's longevity in a time of mass production and short attention spans. Nothing about this record revolves around short-term gains, but rather around the legacy of the music and the statement we're making."

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